Raminta Dvariškytė

Raminta Dvariškytė (born 1 February 1990) is a Lithuanian swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented her nation Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple Lithuanian championship titles and two national records in both the breaststroke and medley relay events.

Raminta Dvariškytė
Personal information
Full nameRaminta Dvariškytė
National team Lithuania
Born (1990-02-01) 1 February 1990
Vilnius, Lithuania
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubVilniaus Vandens Sporto
Mokykla (LTU)
College teamSouthern Methodist University (U.S.)

Dvariskyte competed for Lithuania in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she fired off her own lifetime best in 2:33.35 to clear an insurmountable FINA B-cut by just 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[2][3] Dvariskyte topped the field in heat one by approximately five seconds ahead of Finland's Noora Laukkanen and Brazil's Tatiane Sakemi in 2:33.32, slicing 0.03 seconds off her lifetime best from the Europeans five months earlier. Dvariskyte failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall out of forty-one swimmers in the prelims.[4][5]

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Dvariskyte helped out her team to set two Lithuanian records in the preliminary heats of both freestyle and medley relays, clocking at 3:54.97 and 4:12.30, respectively.[6][7]

Dvariškytė is a member of the swimming team, along with her compatriot Mindaugas Sadauskas for the SMU Mustangs, and also a student in real estate and finance at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

She is married to Omar Andrés Pinzón García, a Colombian swimmer who represented Colombia in the 2004 and 2008 olympics, they have a son named Lucas Pinzón.

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Raminta Dvariškytė". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  2. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 72. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 200m Breaststroke" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. "Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  5. "Plaukikė R. Dvariškytė 200 m plaukimo krūtine atrankos varžybose užėmė 35-ąją vietą ir nepateko į pusfinalį" [Swimmer Raminta Dvariškytė finished 35th in the 200m breaststroke heats, did not make it to the semifinals] (in Lithuanian). Vakarų ekspresas. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. "2009 FINA World Championships (Rome, Italy) – Women's 4×100m Freestyle Relay" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  7. "2009 FINA World Championships (Rome, Italy) – Women's 4×100m Medley Relay" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
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